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  • “Anatomy” of Guns: Body Parts of a Complicated Killer (WW2 Mosins, Arisakas, etc.)

    11/26/2013 5:50:17 PM PST · by dynachrome · 46 replies
    vocativ.com ^ | 11-14-13 | Vocativ Staff
    Years later, at age 24, I had forgotten all this. I stood in a field on a farm in the middle of nowhere and held a gun for the first time. It was a weathered Soviet rifle, manufactured in 1942, and it was heavy. I couldn’t believe I was about to press this rusty, old thing against my shoulder, let alone pull the trigger. The sound was unlike anything I’d ever heard. The concussive blast shook every molecule of my body, and more importantly, changed my whole perspective.
  • Obama bans over 100,000 (old) rifles

    08/19/2010 7:01:44 PM PDT · by NativeNewYorker · 93 replies
    Korea Times via Volokh ^ | August 18, 2010 12:09 am
    According to The Korea Times, the Obama administration has blocked efforts by the South Korean government to sell over a hundred thousand surplus M1 Garand and Carbine rifles into the United States market. These self-loading were rifles introduced in 1926 and 1941. As rifles, they are especially well-suited to community defense in an emergency, as in the cases of community defense following Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Along with AR-15 type rifles, the M1 rifles are the quintessential firearms of responsible citizenship, precisely the type of firearms which civic responsibility organizations such as the Appleseed Project...
  • US opposes Seoul’s bid to sell old rifles (M1 Garands and carbines)

    08/13/2010 3:38:02 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 83 replies
    Korea Times ^ | 8-12-10 | Jung Sung-ki
    The U.S. government opposed South Korea’s bid to sell hundreds of thousands of aging U.S. combat rifles to American gun collectors, a senior government official said Thursday. The ministry announced the plan last September as part of efforts to boost its defense budget, saying the export of the M1 Garand and carbine rifles would start by the end of 2009. The U.S. administration put the brakes on the plan, citing “problems” that could be caused by the importation of the rifles. The problems the U.S. government cited were somewhat ambiguous, said an official at the Ministry of National Defense on...